What would you get if you mix proportions of Indiana Jones, king kong , 300, Gladiator , Mummy with twist and turns and a mix of Indian style dialogue delivery and humor . Well that’s the adventurous story of Aayirathil Oruvan (AO).
‘Open Ending’ is never entertained with the audiences of Tamil film. In all likelihood, AO has a better first half (with usual Selvaraghavan) that abundantly caters to the ‘B’ and ‘C’ centres. But the latter part flees to a different arena.
When an archaeologist vanishes in
After the Interval the movie enters into an different story which makes the audiences restless , all of a sudden the trio find out that the Chola dynasty still thrives in a mysterious cave which makes me to say “ how could people in thousands live in a cave when there is no light and food to feed ” . In spite of shelling huge amount of grandeur and money for the intro of Partiban who plays the Chola empire , there’s nothing much impressive we tend to witness.
Karthi fans would go restless as he hardly appears over the screens. Yes, it’s all about realms of Parthiban and Reema for the next 45minutes and Karthi gets back to the picture patently during penultimate sequence. There is an amphitheatre fight like the one people have seen in Gladiator , which makes me to say the DIR is trying to copy and paste the works of
As mentioned earlier, Selva could’ve picked an alternative climax instead of ‘open ending’. For sure, AO a noteworthy film in the history of contemporary Tamil Cinema. But, it’s strictly not for kids and family audiences, as the last 30 min is a total disaster,showcasing vulgarity and obscene things in front of audiences
Verdict :
Enjoy AO in parts and not in full , appreciate the efforts of technicians who have worked hard to make this movie
Review by :
J Balaji
